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3.
“The big opportunity with open licenses is far more practical:
it has the potential to dramatically increase the impact, reach
and scale of the ideas we invest in…”
The Shuttleworth Foundation, 2008
SUPSI/LCV, Swiss Foundations and Open Licenses (preliminary study), SUPSI-FFHS 2014-2015.

18.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School - October 2016
WIKIPEDIA PRIMARY SCHOOL
Providing on Wikipedia the information necessary to complete the cycle of primary
education in the languages used by the different education systems.
RESEARCH PROBLEM
The research is developed within a Swiss-South African
cooperation lead by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts
of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) and the University of Cape
Town, in partnership with Wikimedia Switzerland and the Africa
Centre based in Cape Town, and with the support of SNF and
the South African National Research Foundation (NRF).
Iolanda Pensa (principal investigator Switzerland), Tobias
Schönwetter (principal investigator South Africa), Luca Botturi,
Florence Devouard, Giancarlo Gianocca, Isla Haddow-Flood,
Erica Litrenta, Giovanni Profeta, Marta Pucciarelli, Kelsey Wiens.
Wikipedia is meant to be an educational tool and it is currently
available online, via mobile phones and ofﬂine. Experiences
have shown that, once accessible, Wikipedia does not provide
information that responds directly to curriculum-based questions.
The project relies on Wikipedia as an existing and growing
resource, it solves the need for an encyclopedia capable of
responding to curriculum-based questions, and it fosters
Wikipedia content, quality and outreach.
THE PROJECT RESEARCH TEAM
The research project developed within a Swiss-South African
cooperation (2014-2017) focuses on the theoretical frame of
Wikipedia Primary School and in developing and evaluating a
system to assess Wikipedia articles for primary education and to
involve a wide network of scholars and contributors in their
production.
More speciﬁcally the project aims at:
1. Bridging Wikipedia and primary education. This objective
implies to move the Wikipedia community towards a focus on
primary education, and at the same time to strengthen the
capacity of the education ecosystem to contribute to
Wikipedia, and in general to open collaborative knowledge.
2. Enriching Wikipedia with new content relevant to primary
education. This objective implies an assessment of the
articles produced.
3. Fostering the development of translations and new content in
different Wikipedia linguistic editions. This objective implies
the release of existing educational resources (OER in cc by
or cc by-sa), the production of datasets and the involvement
of the Wikimedia movement.
4. Verifying and evaluating the use of Wikipedia as a source of
information for primary education. This objective implies the
involvement of stakeholders and data analysis.
Wikipedia Primary School contributes to universal primary
education and to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG2:
Achieve Universal Primary Education). Even if it is scalable and
international, the project is conceived primarily to address African
countries and languages.
SUPSI/LCV,Wikipedia Primary School, FNS 2014-2017.

19.
“The big opportunity with open licenses is far more practical:
it has the potential to dramatically increase the impact, reach
and scale of the ideas we invest in…”
The Shuttleworth Foundation, 2008
SUPSI/LCV, Swiss Foundations and Open Licenses (preliminary study), SUPSI-FFHS 2014-2015.

20.
life skills
South Africa
transport
Alcoholism
Aloe
Apartheid
Bias
Bicycle
Biome
Bullying
Ceramic
Clay
Cooking
Decanting
Design
Discrimination
Drakensberg
Economy of South Africa
Ecosystem
Farm
Fiber
Food security
Food
Freedom Day (South Africa)
Gangster
Gas
Gauteng
Glass
Health
History of South Africa
HIV
HIV/AIDS
Human nutrition
Hydraulics
Kaditshwene
Khoikhoi
List of South Africans
Malaria
Mapungubwe
Mpumalanga
Music of South Africa
Nelson Mandela
Paper
Pneumatics
Politics of South Africa
Pollution
Rail transport
San people
Settling
Sexism
Sieving
Soil
Sound
South African cuisine
Stereotype
Steve Biko
Textile
Transport in South Africa
Transport
Walter Sisulu
Water pollution
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Wood
Wool
Wikipedia
Primary School
Providing the information
necessary to the cycle
of Primary Education
in the languages used
t e i erent
education systems
Methodology
ta li ent o a ienti o ittee
Establishment and implementation of
a i ipe ia ienti o rnal
Partner ip it ienti o rnal an olar
Partnerships with institutions working
in education.
Evaluation.
Milestones
in e it o en e ent t e pro e t a
progressed through the following key
milestones:
1. Analysis of the South African primary school
rri l an i enti ation o rele ant
themes and content.
2. enti ation ele tion an in ol e ent
o a ienti o ittee o pri e o
international e t- atter e pert
(education, open content, OER, Wikipedia
and Wikimedia, expertise on African topics)
to assist with content-related questions.
3. enti ation o i ipe ia arti le in ngli
that are relevant to the South African primary
school curriculum with feedback from the
ienti o ittee
4. Development of guidelines for the review process.
5. Development of a survey to involve teachers
in the process.
6. Drafting of Issue 0 (“pilot issue”)
o t e i ipe ia ienti o rnal
7. enti ation o a a e i e pert an pertinent
ienti o rnal to ontri te to t e re ie
process of the Wikipedia articles selected.
8. Launch of the review process. Selection of
articles and invitation of potential reviewers
to review articles. 25 experts are currently
involved in the review of 37 articles.
9. Pilot la n o t e o rnal re ie pro e
ele tion o arti le i enti ation o potential
o rnal an in itation to re ie arti le
10.Development and testing of approaches
to trigger article creation and improvement
directly on Wikipedia.
11.Selection of criteria and data collection
for the evaluation (information design).
12.Organization of three events (edit-a-thons)
in South Africa to improve articles related to
primary school curriculum. 17 articles have
been edited and expanded.
13.Meetings in South Africa (Cape Town
an o anne rg to i pro e t
methodology and expected outcomes with
around 15 stakeholders working in the
education sector as well as 30 Wikimedia
community members.
For more information
http://bit.ly/WikipediaPS
Project Leaders
Partners
The project
e re ear pro e t ai in e eloping
and evaluating a system to assess Wikipedia
articles for primary education and seeks
to involve a wide network of scholars and
contributors in their production. The research
pro e t i e elope it in a i - o t
African cooperation (2014-2017) and it aims at
increasing the quality and quantity of a selection
of focuses on Wikipedia content relevant to
primary education as prescribed by the South
African primary school curriculum.
Research problem
Wikipedia is meant to be an educational tool
and it is currently available online, via mobile
p one an o ine perien e a e o n
that Wikipedia does not generally provide
information that responds directly to curriculum-
a e e tion e pro e t relie on i ipe ia
as an existing and growing resource, it solves the
need for an encyclopedia capable of responding
to curriculum-based questions, and it fosters
Wikipedia content, quality and outreach.
The visualization shows relationships among the
selected 176 articles and their incoming links
(in Wikipedia: “What links here”). Clusters of
circles refers to the areas of interest from which
incoming links come.
The size of the bubbles shows the amount
of incoming links. Bubbles with the same colors
are clusters of articles with incoming links
in common. The closest the bubbles, the more
correlated the articles. The circles show the
areas of interest from which incoming links come.
Network of the articles
under examination*
Giovanni Profeta
Ph.D. Candidate in Design at Politecnico di Milano
Giovanni Profeta’s research thesis focuses on the
representation of stream data coming from the
Internet. The thesis aims to provide a theoretical
model and visual tools for the analysis of the
increasing amount of data daily generated
through the web (by collaborative platforms,
social networks, connected appliances etc.).
Furthermore, the thesis tries to investigate
the physical representation of data as a means
to increase accessibility and user engagement.
Research team
The research is developed within a Swiss-South
African cooperation lead by the University
of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern
Switzerland (SUPSI) and the University of Cape
Town, in partnership with Wikimedia Switzerland
and the Africa Centre based in Cape Town, and
with the support of SNF and the South African
National Research Foundation (NRF).
Switzerland
Iolanda Pensa (principal investigator)
Luca Botturi
Florence Devouard
Giancarlo Gianocca
Erica Litrenta
Giovanni Profeta
Marta Pucciarelli
South Africa
Tobias Schönwetter (principal investigator)
Isla Haddow-Flood
Kelsey Wiens
or t e i ipe ia Pri ar ool pro e t
Giovanni Profeta is leading the evaluation process
of the articles under examination through digital
quantitative methods.
Giovanni’s main contributions are the following:
Analysis of the state of the art of articles
relevant to primary education for South
African primary school curriculum.
eri ation o t e pro e t i pa t to
Wikipedia content
al ation o igni ant aria le o intere t
or rt er re ear pro e t
The visual evaluation is conceived as an iterative
process. All the data visualizations are designed
and optimized thanks to the feedback of team
members involved in the qualitative evaluation.
Giovanni has developed a web scraper to gather
data about Wikipedia articles and a set of data
i ali ation a o e ti e a po i le in or er to
provide visual tools for understanding the actions
that should be undertaken by the research team.
Giovanni has also released in open source the
datasets and the code for web scraping and data
i ali ation a a it pro e t alle i i ole
SUPSI/LCV,Wikipedia Primary School, FNS 2014-2017.